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Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Admin shelves CDC guide to reopening country — GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A set of detailed documents created by the nation's top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen public places such as mass transit …
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Conrad Swanson / Denver Post:
Colorado GOP Chair Ken Buck pressured local official to submit incorrect election results — Fellow Republican says congressman tried to bully him into committing a crime — Colorado Republican Party Chair Ken Buck, a U.S. representative from Windsor, pressured a local party official …
New York Times:
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks — The coronavirus outbreak in New York City became the primary source of infections across much of the country by early March, researchers have found. — Munich — Paris — London — Rome — Barcelona, Spain — Rafina, Greece
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New York Times:
Germany and U.S. on Divergent Paths to Reopen — Online retailers, backed by Amazon, are beginning a campaign to press for billions of dollars to rescue the Postal Service. Nearly one in five children in the U.S. are not getting enough to eat. — Here's what you need to know:
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The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Task Force Gets Its ‘Mission Accomplished’ Moment — The White House shifts focus from public health to economics. — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.
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McSweeney's, Al Jazeera, WBRZ, Just The News and Mediaite
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The Virus Is Winning — Magical thinking won't protect us.
The Virus Is Winning — Magical thinking won't protect us.
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Raw Story and Second Nexus
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
As Hunger Swells, Food Stamps Become a Partisan Flash Point
As Hunger Swells, Food Stamps Become a Partisan Flash Point
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VICE, The Hamilton Project, Raw Story and Center for Economic …
George Conway / Washington Post:
Trump lashed out at me on Twitter. It's because he knows the truth. — Americans died from covid-19 at the rate of about one every 42 seconds during the past month. That ought to keep any president awake at night. — Not Donald Trump. — Just days ago, the president flipped …
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Lincoln Project has its biggest day of fundraising after president attacks ‘Never Trump’ group — The Lincoln Project, which is run by Republican operatives who oppose President Donald Trump, raised $1 million after the president ripped the group on Twitter this week - marking the super PAC's biggest day of fundraising yet.
USA Today:
Kristol, Coons: Republicans should reject Trump's divisive approach to pandemic — Too many members of Congress, following the lead of President Donald Trump, continue to engage in coronavirus denialism. — One of us is a Democratic senator, who, though certainly willing to seek common ground across …
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In These Times
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Democrats Are Suddenly Okay With Voting For A Man Accused Of Rape
Democrats Are Suddenly Okay With Voting For A Man Accused Of Rape
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Redstate, The Bulwark and Fox News
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery — Another black man falsely assumed to be a criminal is dead. — The video is short and shocking. — It's taken from the perspective of a vehicle following a young black man running at a jogger's pace. The jogger is 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery.
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Christian Living / Russell Moore:
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery and the Justice of God
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery and the Justice of God
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Raw Story
ProPublica:
On the Same Day Sen. Richard Burr Dumped Stock, So Did His Brother-in-Law. Then the Market Crashed. — The brother-in-law, a Trump appointee, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of stock. Burr is under federal investigation over whether he traded on non-public information gathered through his work in the Senate.
Associated Press:
Face masks make a political statement in era of coronavirus — WASHINGTON (AP) — The decision to wear a mask in public is becoming a political statement — a moment to pick sides in a brewing culture war over containing the coronavirus. — While not yet as loaded as a “Make America Great Again” …
Katherine Shaver / Washington Post:
Smartphone data shows out-of-state visitors flocked to Georgia as restaurants and other businesses reopened — One week after Georgia allowed dine-in restaurants, hair salons and other businesses to reopen, an additional 62,440 visitors arrived there daily, most from surrounding states …
Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
Woman killed by alligator in SC was doing homeowner's nails — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The woman attacked and killed by an alligator in a gated community along the South Carolina coast was visiting the homeowner to do her nails and was trying to touch the animal when it grabbed her, authorities said.
Meghann Myers / Military Times:
Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military — As the Defense Department negotiates its way through the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout, military entrance processing stations are working with new guidance when it comes to bringing COVID-19 survivors into the services.
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Wall Street Journal:
3.2 Million Workers Filed Unemployment Claims Last Week — Wave of layoffs caused by coronavirus could crest as soon as this month, jobless claims suggest — WASHINGTON—Last week 3.2 million workers filed unemployment claims, easing from the peak since the coronavirus triggered U.S. shutdowns …
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
‘What are we doing this for?’: Doctors are fed up with conspiracies ravaging ERs — “I left work and I felt so deflated,” one doctor said about an effort to counter misinformation he saw on Facebook. “I let it get to me.” — At the end of another long shift treating coronavirus patients …
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Althouse
Ben Harris / Jerusalem Post:
Meet the 107-year-old woman who survived the coronavirus and Spanish flu — “It's remarkable,” Shapiro said. “That's all I can say. It's just unbelievable. I think perhaps it's because of her art that she's still involved in.” — After Marilee Shapiro Asher was admitted to the hospital …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump's New Message: Time to Move On to the Recovery — The president's cure-can't-be-worse-than-the- disease logic is clear: As bad as the virus may be, the cost of the virtual national lockdown has grown too high. — WASHINGTON — Confronted with America's worst public health crisis in generations …
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Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Washington Post, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump contradicts nurse in testy Oval Office exchange over coronavirus protective gear
Trump contradicts nurse in testy Oval Office exchange over coronavirus protective gear
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New York Daily News, Mediaite and HuffPost
David Brody / Just The News:
Trump 2020: Lewandowski ‘very concerned’ by ‘devastating’ jobless rate, risk of resurgent virus — But Trump 2016 campaign manager dreams of a ‘Lincoln-Douglas-style debate every day’ between the president and a very beatable ‘Beijing Biden.’ — It wasn't supposed to be this way.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
When Trump covered for China's alleged coronavirus coverup
When Trump covered for China's alleged coronavirus coverup
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Wall Street Journal
Washington Post:
Top Republican fundraiser and Trump ally named postmaster general, giving president new influence over Postal Service — A top donor to President Trump and the Republican National Committee will be named the new head of the Postal Service, putting a top ally of the president in charge …
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CNBC:
Cuomo says it's ‘shocking’ most new coronavirus hospitalizations are people who had been staying home — Early look at data from 100 New York hospitals shows that 66% of new admissions related to the virus are people who were at home, Cuomo said. — He also said a majority of the cases …
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Big League Politics
Kevin Rudd / Foreign Affairs:
The Coming Post-COVID Anarchy — The Pandemic Bodes Ill for Both American and Chinese Power—and for the Global Order — In January and February of this year, there was audible popping of champagne corks in certain quarters of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
Washington Post:
Arizona halts partnership with experts predicting coronavirus cases would continue to mount — Hours after Doug Ducey, the Republican governor of Arizona, accelerated plans to reopen businesses, saying the state was “headed in the right direction,” his administration halted the work of a team …
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Gateway Pundit Reporter Lavishes Praise on Unabomber: ‘A Brilliant Man’ — Cassandra Fairbanks, a right-wing activist and writer at the pro-Trump blog The Gateway Pundit, approvingly read passages from the Unabomber Manifesto last weekend in a late-night live video on Twitter, where she has hundreds of thousands of followers.
Politico:
Azar faulted workers' ‘home and social’ conditions for meatpacking outbreaks — The country's top health official downplayed concerns over the public health conditions inside meatpacking plants, suggesting on a call with lawmakers that workers were more likely to catch coronavirus based …
Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
What Trump Has in Common With Napoleon — A brash outsider who knew his terrain like nobody else, he succeeded until he faced a new kind of enemy. — Russia is the country that, more than any other, has haunted Donald Trump's presidency. It began when allegations of Russian collusion …
Lis Smith / New York Times:
How Joe Biden Can Defeat Trump From His Basement — If he can win the battle for our screens, he can benefit from the death of the traditional presidential campaign. — Ms. Smith advised campaigns by Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Cuomo and Barack Obama. — If Joe Biden plays his cards right …
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Axios
Washington Post:
From a Miami condo to the Venezuelan coast, how a plan to ‘capture’ Maduro went rogue — Inside a glittering Miami high-rise, representatives of the Venezuelan opposition sat in a room adorned with samurai swords and listened to a pitch. They had been appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaidó …
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Daily Mail, Mediaite and New York Post
New York Times:
Most States That Are Reopening Fail to Meet White House Guidelines — More than half of U.S. states have begun to reopen their economies or plan to do so soon. But most fail to meet criteria recommended by the Trump administration to resume business and social activities.
Miami Herald:
FDLE releases list of COVID-19 deaths. Top medical examiner calls it a sham. — Acting under intense pressure from a coalition of Florida news organizations and open-government advocates, the state Wednesday evening released a list of every Florida fatality documented by a medical examiner resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
What is China covering up about the coronavirus? — Days before the Wuhan wet market was bleached, whistleblowers were punished and virus samples were destroyed, someone at the high-security Wuhan Institute of Virology censored its virus database in an apparent attempt to disassociate …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
‘This is a Time for Survival’ — Dear Washington, — I've got a friend named JOE MACKLE, and he wonders if you know what you're doing. — Now, now. Don't go getting offended. It's nothing personal. Joe doesn't have some partisan axe to grind. It's just that for a guy like Joe …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Biden says he'll reverse DeVos rule bolstering protections for those accused of campus sexual assault — Former Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that if he's elected president, he will reverse a rule issued by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos aimed at bolstering protections for students …
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Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller and ED News
Bloomberg:
Cold, Crowded, Deadly: How U.S. Meat Plants Became a Virus Breeding Ground — By late March, Rafael Benjamin's family was pleading with him to stay home from work even if it cost him his job. He promised he would, but not until after April 10. That would be his work anniversary …